Today's khuṭbah Three Lessons From the Crusades For Our Times The famous adage goes: Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. One of the most neglected of topics that even our scholars are rarely taught is Islamic history. Most seminaries around the globe have a very superficial course or two that concentrates primarily on early history (first hundred years or so). I am not aware of any world-famous mainstream seminary (like al-Azhar or Madinah) that teaches pre-modern history as a